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Feb 20, 2025

Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner

Paris Is Burning

The Brother From Another Planet

BlacKkKlansman

The Full Monty

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A Wonkette Movie Special Event: Selma

Selma is the dramatized telling of the fight for voting rights through the story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. When I chose this movie for us to watch it was to honor Dr. King, but what I didn’t realize is how much this story would resonate today. Thinking about writing this post, I told a friend that my M…

a month ago · 126 likes · 2150 comments · ziggywiggy

The African Queen

The Big Clock

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Wonkette Movie Night: The Fifth Element

The Fifth Element is a story spanning centuries, starting in 1914 Egypt. An archaeologist works to uncover an engraving in a temple wall of a figure surrounded by the four elements of water, fire, earth, and air. The professor deciphers the carvings, explaining that every 5,000 years an evil comes, “spreading terror and chaos.” Funny, that happens every…

2 months ago · 68 likes · 1551 comments · ziggywiggy

Trading Places

The Lion In Winter

Christmas Day Matinee: Die Hard

Scrooged

Arthur

Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children

Raiders Of The Lost Ark

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Thanksgiving Wonkette Movie Matinee: Addams Family Values

From the first notes of the harpsichord you know what is coming next…

3 months ago · 128 likes · 1312 comments · ziggywiggy

The Big Lebowski

Captain Marvel

Galaxy Quest

Saving Private Ryan

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Wonkette Movie Night: Halloween

On October 25, 1978 Michael Myers first slashed his way onto the big screen in John Carpenter’s Halloween. The film starts out by giving us Michael’s origin story as a murderous six year old boy in a clown costume. He uses a very large knife to kill his teenage-sex having sister. Gotta punish that pre-marital shagging! We get but a few minutes into the …

4 months ago · 87 likes · 1292 comments · ziggywiggy

Trick ‘r Treat

Cabin In The Woods

Zombieland

The House On Haunted Hill

Warm Bodies

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Wonkette Movie Night: The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption. Just saying the title will conjure up memorable lines, poetic cinematography, amazing storytelling, and great acting. Based on Stephen King’s 1982 short story, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Wonkette commission link!), it tells the story of Andy Dufresne and his years-long stay in a Maine state prison starting in 1947…

5 months ago · 63 likes · 1883 comments · ziggywiggy

Kubo And The Two Strings

The Birds

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Wonkette Labor Day Matinee: Clerks

Happy Labor Day…

6 months ago · 137 likes · 2180 comments · ziggywiggy

Mad Hot Ballroom

The Secret Of Kells

Wild Nights With Emily

Tank Girl

The Third Man

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Wonkette Movie Night: Godzilla/Gojira 1954

That roar! A beastly bellowing that portends much crushing of tiny villages and rending of high voltage wires. The thunderous call was created by Akira Ifukube, who found that mixing animal noises was too natural a sound for Godzilla. What was needed was the roar of a creature that had never been heard before, something unique and frightening. The compo…

7 months ago · 68 likes · 1984 comments · ziggywiggy

Wonkette Movie Matinee July 4th: Jaws

I think this writeup could just be the awesome poster and that’s enough…

8 months ago · 116 likes · 3048 comments · ziggywiggy

Pride

Ghostbusters (2016)

Rear Window

Orlando

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Wonkette Movie Night: Barbie

Imagine a universe where Barbie and Ken exist as living beings. It is a very pink universe. A happy place with all the different Barbies and Kens living in an ideal world, having nightly parties and spending their days at the beach. But something dark is creeping into the perfect pastel life of BarbieLand. Barbie has begun to think of her own mortality…

9 months ago · 78 likes · 2221 comments · ziggywiggy

Memorial Day Matinee: M*A*S*H

Plan 9 From Outer Space

The Mummy (1999)

The Triplets Of Belleville

Star Wars IV

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Wonkette Movie Night: Harvey

“P O O K A - Pooka - from old Celtic mythology - a fairy spirit in animal form - always very large. The pooka appears here and there - now and then - to this one and that one - a benign but mischievous creature - very fond of rumpots, crackpots, and Wonkers…

10 months ago · 75 likes · 1874 comments · ziggywiggy

Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle

Wonkette Movie Night: Kinky Boots

"For ladies, gentlemen and those who are yet to make up your minds…

a year ago · 68 likes · 1471 comments · ziggywiggy

Dogma

Wonkette Movie Night: Birds Of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation Of One Harley Quinn)

KABOOM…

a year ago · 73 likes · 1314 comments · ziggywiggy

Keanu

Summer Of Soul

Mad Max: Fury Road

My Favorite Year (1982)

Paul

Diva

The Poseidon Adventure

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Wonkette Movie Night Dec. 25th Special Event: Die Hard (1988)

Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! Feliz Navidad! Happy Christmas! Seasons Greetings! & DIE HARD…

a year ago · 57 likes · 1170 comments · ziggywiggy

Gremlins

The Night Before

The Thin Man (1934)

Monty Python And The Holy Grail

Addams Family Values

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Wonkette Movie Night: Being There

The movie begins with Peter Sellers' character Chance sleeping as the TV awakens him to the sound of an orchestra playing Franz Schubert's 8th(Unfinished Symphony.) Still in his bed clothes he waters plants and dusts an old automobile with the constant of a television in the background. He is an older man, ritualistic in his behavior, his pajamas button…

a year ago · 62 likes · 1685 comments · ziggywiggy

Enchanted April

Everything Everywhere All At Once

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Wonkette Movie Night: Zombie Double Feature, Day Of The Dead (1985) - Train To Busan (2016)

Hi Movie Night fans…

a year ago · 47 likes · 1528 comments · ziggywiggy

An American Werewolf In London

The Haunting (1963)

Alien

Tucker & Dale Vs Evil!

The Frighteners

A Shot In The Dark

Hedwig And The Angry Inch

His Girl Friday

Miller’s Crossing

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Wonkette Movie Night: Airplane!

Hi Movie Night fans…

2 years ago · 46 likes · 2142 comments · ziggywiggy

Attack the Block

Spirited Away

Dick

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Wonkette Movie Night: Blazing Saddles

Hi Movie Night fans…

2 years ago · 61 likes · 2200 comments · ziggywiggy

Do The Right Thing

Bedazzled (1967)

Big Trouble In Little Trouble

Legend

Laura

Caddyshack

Bend It Like Beckham

The Blues Brothers

Wonkette

Wonkette Movie Night: My Man Godfrey

Hi Movie Night fans…

2 years ago · 2304 comments · ziggywiggy

Man On Wire (link missing)

Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (link missing)

Charade

Up In Smoke

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Wonkette Movie Night: The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert

Happy Anniversary, Movie Night fans…

2 years ago · 2986 comments · ziggywiggy

Monty Python’s Life of Brian

Shaun Of The Dead

The following Movie Nights were written by Robyn Pennacchia:

Tampopo

School Of Rock

Cat Ballou

Raising Arizona

9 To 5 (non comments missing)

Barbershop

In The Heights (link missing)

Groundhog Day

Wonkette

Wonkette Movie Night: Bringing Up Baby

Available for free on the Internet Archives. On HBO Max and for $2.99 in the usual places. Enjoy…

2 years ago · 3020 comments · Robyn Pennacchia

It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Best In Show

Knives Out

Young Frankenstein (link missing)

Christmas Matinee: Die Hard

Elf (link missing)

Bad Santa (link missing)

King Kong

Dr. Strangelove

Wonkette

Wonkette's Movie Night Is A SCIENCE FICTION DOUBLE FEATURE!

Achtung achtung, Ziggy informs me you are having a DOUBLE FEATURE! You will be watching together Galaxy Quest, at 9 p.m. Eastern and 6 p.m. Pacific! Then apparently some of you will still be awake (???) to watch Ghostbusters at 11! PM! Eastern…

2 years ago · 2887 comments · Rebecca Schoenkopf

Booksmart

Animal House

This Is Spinal Tap

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Night Of The Living Dead

The Thing

Psycho

Wonkette

Wonkette Movie Night: They Live

2 years ago · 2948 comments · Robyn Pennacchia

The Addams Family (link missing)

A Fish Called Wanda

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

A League Of Their Own

Bagdad Cafe

Hidden Figures

Wonkette

Wonkette Movie Night: Aliens

I have never seen this movie! Enjoy yourselves…

3 years ago · 3597 comments · Robyn Pennacchia

Willie Wonka And The Chocolate Factory

Jaws (non-comments missing)

Clue

Victor/Victoria (non comments missing)

What We Do In The Shadows

Our first official Movie Night as our own thread:

Wonkette

Wonkette Movie Night: The Princess Bride!

3 years ago · Robyn Pennacchia

The unofficial Movie Nights that were in the non-comments of Saturday’s OT:

Beetlejuice

The Birdcage

Tremors

Young Frankenstein

Monty Python And The Holy Grail

The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert

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